High time for Human Rights inquiry against the US?

There’s a famous line written somewhere that talks about removing the beam from your own eye, before pointing out the speck in someone else’s eye. We’ve all heard about this line in various different ways right?

Wrong….!!!

Obviously the USA and the UK have never heard of this valuable piece of advice! Of course in their defense, it may be the fact that a bloody great beam that’s stuck very firmly in their eyes has grown so big, it’s blocking their hearing as well.

What exactly am I talking about here? Well, to be specific, it’s about the ongoing special session of the UNHRC to inquire into alleged violations that have happened during the assault on the LTTE’s final stronghold. Now correct me if I’m wrong here, but I believe the armed forces actually held back to a certain extent and in fact declared numerous ceasefires in order to facilitate the safe passage of the civilians who were being held hostage by the LTTE.

Yes, there have been civilian casualties, inflicted by both sides of the fence, and that’s a sad fact we all have to accept. But what really gets my goat is the fact that the very countries that are pushing the hardest for this inquiry, the US and UK, are right now involved in an ongoing assault which includes repeated air strikes against a Taliban enclave in Afghanistan. An enclave where there are thousands of innocent civilians trapped between the two armed factions!

There have been numerous reports of hundreds of civilian casualties that are occurring as a result of these air strikes. But the US and UK seem to think these deaths are just a ‘regrettable consequence’ of the war on terror and should not be seen as a reason to call off the attacks. On the contrary, the ‘allied’ forces seem to be putting more and more effort into totally destroying this enclave with a devil may care attitude towards the loss of innocent lives.

Now is it just me being dense here, or is there actually some sort of logic that’s being used here? Maybe it’s the logic that says as long as you’re a western country, it’s perfectly OK to kill and displace civilians in your battle to eradicate terrorism. After all, God did die and leave you guys in charge of what’s right and wrong in the world right?

But God (The one who died and left them in charge) have mercy on any third world country that actually succeeds in ending a 3 decade long terrorist organization and in the process liberates thousands of civilians who were being held hostage!

IMHO, it’s high time Sri Lanka spoke to a few of our friends on the UNHRC and requested them to table a motion calling for an immediate ceasefire in Afghanistan, and also for a prompt third party inquiry into the human rights violations perpetrated by the US and UK in their on going war on terror. This should also take into account the reports of torture and abuse of prisoners in the hands of the US and UK armed forces. Abuses that have been well documented and even admitted to by the administrations of these countries.

In fact, this inquiry should extend to all the western countries who were involved in George Bush’s almighty offensive on the ‘Axis of Terror’. I’m sure this list will read like a ‘who’s who’ of the countries pushing for the inquiry against Sri Lanka right now!

So what say you guys, can we all start a petition that calls for the immediate inquiry into US and UK human rights violations? If that doesn’t work, maybe we can start organizing some mass protests in Times square and also block a couple of highways in Canada and the US. But do remember to bring your kids with you so the police can’t do anything to stop you!

Put up or shut up time…!!

In the middle of all the joyous posts and articles celebrating the end of the war on terrorism, I couldn’t help reading quite a few foreign news agency reports and opinions that tend to harp on what action the West should take with regard to the ‘Humanitarian Crisis’ and ‘War Crimes’ that’re happening in Sri Lanka.

Some advocate the US and European countries should undertake their own investigations and take the powers that be to task. Others encourage the view that economic sanctions should be put in place to force the Government of Sri Lanka (GOSL) to cooperate with the inquiries. One columnist in the ‘TimesOnline’ has even advised the US to block the much needed IMF loan, claiming that Sri Lanka does not deserve to be helped.

Forgive me for sounding a bit naive here, but wasn’t it these very people who for the past several months been harping about the well being of the IDP’s and how bad things were for them? They even went to the extent of threatening the GOSL and in turn the people of Sri Lanka with extreme sanctions on the lines of Zimbabwe, unless an immediate ceasefire was declared. Well, the war is over, they’ve got the ceasefire they wanted, maybe not in the manner they hoped for, but it’s still an end of hostilities right? So why then are these governments still threatening sanctions?

As I see it, the immediate need of the day is to ensure the rehabilitation of the IDP’s. They desperately need to be provided with food, shelter, clothing, medical treatment, etc. in order for them to regain what 3 decades of war has taken away from them. The GOSL and the people of Sri Lanka are doing their utmost right now to tackle a situation for which they were ill prepared. We need all the help we can get right now in order to put these people back on their feet, and IMHO the West seems pretty determined to shoot our efforts down in a blaze of hypocrisy!

Right now what Sri Lanka and its people need is not self righteous posturing but straight forward pledges of support that aren’t couched in conditions and demands that are guaranteed to make the situation worse and even prolong the suffering of these poor people!

I seriously think it’s high time the West understood that we Sri Lankans are getting pretty tired of the sanctimonious preaching being directed at us in our time of need. We’re also pretty tired of the double standards adopted by the West, that makes it OK for them to carry out air strikes against civilians in Afghanistan, but prevents them from providing vital aid to a struggling democracy that’s trying to help its people!

IMHO, it’s high time the West either put up or shut up!!

The Cowardly Custard…!! ;)

Is it just me or has anyone else noticed the newest trend in Sri Lanka’s blogging scene? There seems to be a radical increase in people who seem to think it’s cool to try and threaten and blackmail others into either deleting their blogs or editing their posts.

The newest entrant into this rather twisted field of blogging is someone who likes people to think he/she/it is a wonderful combination of sugar and spice, but unfortunately comes across more as a bit of a rotten egg desert! More a Cowardly Custard than anything else. He/she/it proudly claims to be responsible for the deletion of ‘Charm Bracelet’ and ‘Indyana’ and has now published a list of people to be further targeted.

Now, while I do understand there may be a very few people who would be intimidated by this sort of creature, does he/she/it seriously believe that everyone who’s been listed will be shaking in their shoes and running to delete their blogs??

I’m sure most of the bloggers mentioned on this particular site are probably having a hard time controlling the urge to piss themselves right now… not with fear as the Cowardly Custard hopes… but by laughing so hard at the thought of being threatened by someone as childish as this.

I actually had the bad experience of having just taken a sip of hot coffee when I read the latest post by Cowardly Custard… Not a pleasant thing to have said hot coffee come shooting out through your nose…! Of course the other guys in office found that to be almost as funny as the threats made on Cowardly Custard’s blog!

This creature has also happened to mention how it’s insulting to be compared to the formerly unknown but now infamous NB, but IMHO, the Cowardly Custard is a few degrees below that level too. He/she/it doesn’t even have the balls to blog under a real name like NB did, instead, this creature prefers to hide behind a computer and attack other bloggers who have done nothing to deserve such attacks.

Of course, I’m sure in this Cowardly Custard’s twisted little mind (Where there are many voices running around in straight jackets), the people on the list have been personally responsible for much persecution and harassment of this poor creature!

Anyways, I’d seriously love to hear what you guys think about these threats. Are you gonna go into hiding or continue to blog?

I’m sure I already know the answer to that question of course… Not everyone as cowardly as the Cowardly Custard… So here’s looking forward to reading lots of more interesting posts!

Oops… Your Slip is showing Ms. Clinton!

This is an Afghan child who was injured in the recent US led air strikes in Afghanistan…

I guess he looks like a Al Qaida terrorist to Ms. Hillary Clinton huh?

‘Nuff said about America’s double standards…!!

Nari Baana and the sour Kottu…

Woke up this morning with this really great story in my mind, all about this silly Nari Baana and how he desperately wanted some Kottu. But since he couldn’t get any, the Nari Baana went around saying how sour and rotten the Kottu was…

But then I realised…. Damn… that story has already been written and sold a million or more copies…! These bloody fairy tale writers I tell you…!!!

Humph…! Better luck next time I guess…

A fat Indian cow ‘moos’ in desperation!

Was just surfing through the latest headlines on various news sites, when I came across a really shocking one!

“Will have Indian army create Tamil Elam – Jayalalitha”

Apparently in a pre-election speech made in TamilNadu, Jayalalitha has openly promised that if she is voted into power, she will promptly send in the Indian army to forcibly carve out an independent country in Sri Lanka’s north and east!

My very first reaction was a stunned ‘WTF…????’ and even now I’m having serious issues with dealing with such a statement. Who the hell does this fat, aging politician from TamilNadu think she is?

Having seen all the ‘concerned’ and ’sorrowing’ politicians in TamilNadu get up to various publicity stunts in order to try and claw their way to power in the forthcoming elections, I’m tempted to write this speech off as yet another such comical ploy.

But then again, I’m fucking insulted!  Does this fat cow seriously think we Sri Lankans are just going to sit back and accept the fact that some dosai and wadai eating hoard of Indians are in our country to set up a separate state for the glorification of a maniacal killer?

We Sri Lankans have been through thirty years of terror thanks to the constant interfering of these very same TamilNadu politicians. It’s true, they’ve at various times nurtured and attacked the LTTE according to what the prevailing political climate, but overall they have a lot to answer for when it comes to the success of the LTTE and their terror tactics.

Now, just as we’re on the verge on defeating this psychopath and his leadership, up pops a geriatric cow in TamilNadu, making promises to invade Sri Lanka and do exactly what the LTTE failed to do!

I just have one thing to say to this old cow….

Go stick the Indian army and Tamil Eelam up your fat ass, cos there’s certainly enough room in there for them all…!!

None so blind as those who will not see

With the present war situation seemingly drawing to a close, more and more people are focusing on the plight of the IDP’s and how we can help them. This is definitely a cause that warrants all of our involvement. We need to be doing our utmost at this time for these people.

But what really gets to me, is seeing the continued protests by certain elements of the Tamil Diaspora around the world. They continue to wave the LTTE flag, block roads and even use their kids to hold posters with gruesome images. All in the vain attempt to call on the international community to save the LTTE and their sociopath leader!

It simply boggles my mind as to how these people cannot see what’s happening to the innocent Tamils of the North and East because of the continued armed militancy of the LTTE. They have ample evidence at their fingertips of how bad the situation is for the people still being held hostage by the LTTE and yet they continue to scream and shout about how the LTTE is the sole voice of representation for the Tamil people!

I wonder when, if ever, these elements will finally accept that a mistake was made by them in supporting a megalomaniac who wanted to be elevated to the status of a god. Maybe it’s just that they don’t want to admit to themselves how badly they were fooled by the ‘Sun God’ who was willing to sacrifice thousands of innocents just to achieve his personal dreams.

On the other hand, I was having a little chat with a colleague in office, and was once again amazed at the blindness displayed by him. Of course, this time around the blindness was directed towards the corruption and abuse of power that’s rampant in the ruling powers that be!

He was absolutely adamant in his opinion that the present leaders and their allies in power can do no wrong. Even when confronted with the numerous stunts pulled by the now infamous Doctor politico and his son, the recent shooting incidents that happened during the PC elections, his reaction was just to smirk annoyingly and brush them off as simply nothing compared to what others used to do when in power. Once again even with ample evidence of corruption and abuse available at his fingertips, this person simply refused to accept any truth in such allegations.

I find myself asking the question, was the line ‘none so blind as he who will not see’ written many ages ago with us Sri Lankans in mind?

Isn’t it high time we Sri Lankans, both resident and diaspora, stopped behaving like the fabled frog in the well and opened our eyes to what’s actually going on? Maybe the day we can achieve that as a country is when we’ll actually have a future to pass on to our kids.

Until then, I think the line stands as a one line description of most Sri Lankans, whatever race they may be…

Of Lunatics and Trolls…!

OK…! Where do I even begin to start? To say things have been quite interesting would be quite the understatement. To say things have been amusing would be very apt!

As most of you would know by now, there’s been a mini war of sorts happening on kottu for the last couple of days, and it seems to have got quite a lot of attention. Which I personally believe was the whole intention of one very frustrated female out there. Of course another well known sociopath also decided the time was perfect to increase the hit count on his blog by jumping on the band wagon! All in the name of protecting little miss frustrated!

The female of the species, who at first I assumed was just another innocent blogger, started out by being quite fawning over everything I would post, and I must admit, it gave my ego quite the little thrill! But then things started changing and she started taking on the characteristics normally associated with creatures who live under stone bridges (For those of you not too familiar with this subject, legend has it that Trolls tend to live under bridges).

Unfortunately, this phase of her evolution was very short lived, and she soon started manifesting all the signs of being more a very mentally disturbed person than your average Troll. She started posting malicious stories about actual people whom she seems to think exist only in her imagination! I’m sure these people will be very surprised to find out they only exist in this frustrated lunatic’s mind! Imagine the horror of that, being trapped in that mind with all the other weird and frustrated creatures she creates!

She then went on to follow in the extremely muddy footprints of another well known lunatic who happens to think of himself as educated, by posting pictures and personal details of these imaginary people, and that’s when the biggest shock occurred. These people were actually living, breathing, and according to her and her fans, very sexually active people!

The final piece in the puzzle that definitely confirms the mental status of this lunatic, is that she still continues to insist these people exist only in her mind!! Now this just boggles even my normally sane mind. I mean, are these people real or not?

Having tried to talk some sense into both the male and female versions of this new breed of blogger, I have come to the firm conclusion that my chances of achieving any success would be equal to trying to empty the ‘Thotalanga’ garbage dump with a toy bulldozer!

So, what does one do in this situation? Well, I guess I can do what the Drummer Boy from London did and maintain a dignified silence or I can check myself into the same asylum these two lunatics occupy and try and chase them around screaming madly into their ears! Neither of which sound very nice to me.

Or there’s the more attractive option, which I know may sound a tad cruel to some of you more open minded people, which is to stand outside their little glass cells and make fun of them! It’s actually amazing the tantrums these two lunatics throw when they realize that someone has recognized them for what they are, and then starts laughing at them!

They tend to start hurling threats of arrest, and firing from jobs and posting pictures, much like the lunatics at the asylum will resort to throwing their own shit at people who laugh at them! They also try another very effective lunatic tactic, which is to cry helplessly, claiming they’re actually the sanest person around and are being viciously victimized by aliens and other such evil creatures in the blogosphere!

Ok… Ok… I know this post has rambled a bit, but I guess that’s what happens when you hang around two very disturbed individuals. It makes your mind do funny things to itself!

All I wanted to actually say was, watch out for these two sociopathic lunatics while your strolling around the blogosphere, cos they’re probably waiting for their chance to take a quick dump in their hands and fling it at you. Also remember the signs and watch for others who exhibit them!

Cheers 

Dear Oprah…

Having returned from a really long weekend, and checking through my mail, I came across some really shocking news!

It seems you are considering letting some poor college guys walk all the way from Toronto to Chicago just for the privilege of being on your show! Like I said, shocking!

But what’s even more shocking, is that you would even remotely consider allowing people who are openly supportive of a banned terrorist organisation to be given prime time coverage on your show!

I wonder if you would be as accommodating of a group of people who walked from Afghanistan to Chicago to air their views on how the government of the USA is carrying out a ‘genocide’ in their country and how the Al Quaeda is the one true voice of all Muslims the world over? Would they also be given a chance to voice their opinions?

Now I do understand that those volatile and ever shifting rating points are a very important factor in deciding what you do and don’t allow on your much watched show. But still, are even a million extra rating points, worth promoting the propaganda of a ruthless terror outfit that has been responsible for the deaths of thousands of people over the space of 30 years?

I find it quite sad that these young people who most probably have not ever set foot in Sri Lanka, have been fooled by the efficient propaganda machine that’s run by the LTTE. I mean, these guys are college students, couldn’t they be doing something a lot more worthwhile with their time than trudging through all kinds of weather just to be used as yet another mouthpiece?

Even as I write this, thousands of innocent Tamil people are being held hostage by the very terror organisation that you’re about to give much needed publicity to. They’re being used as human shields in order to save the life of an aging megalomaniac, who continues to commit horrendous acts of terror on the very people he claims to protect, while having the audacity to call himself their Sun God…!

Instead of falling for the same bullshit that MIA and Arundhati Roy have, why not use the position afforded to you by the grace of God to speak out against the terrorists who’re holding these people hostage and making them suffer untold misery and death?

The LTTE have only one interest at heart, and that is definitely not the betterment and well being of the Tamil people! All they care about is having total and absolute power over them, to use them as they see fit, be it as slave labour to build bunkers for the LTTE leadership to hide in or as convenient human shields behind which the ‘Sun God’ can hide his cowardly skin!

Enough is enough dear Oprah, fuck your rating points, there’re little kids dying out here in the war zone and your show is going to prolong their agony!

The Neanderthal Booruwa Competition!

Having a ball of a time reading all the posts floating around with regard to Nibras Bawa’s mind boggling (Not in a good way) post!

Having already made my opinion known on his blog, a thought crossed my mind (And that’s quite a rare occurance) we could have some fun

So here it is:

THE NEANDERTHAL BOORUWA COMPETITION

Very simple rules, HissyFits has already set the standard on being creative with NB’s initials. The challenge is to beat her with your own creative version!

Eg : Nonsensical Brat

So here’s hoping everyone has some fun with this, and please do let the anger show through, it’ll probably help with the inspiration!